ArduIMU V2 Demo (Video)

I have to be honest; i tried to kept this project as a little secret to void people waiting for it, so i have plenty of time to prototype. Not to mention that everything was running very slow because the school and we were moving the business to another location.I would like to give special thanks to Chris Anderson, Nathan Seidle (from SparkFun) and specially to William Premerlani, we've spent a great time together trying to adapt the code into Arduino Environment, a great experience for me (absolutely). Thank you Bill!The ArduIMU V2 is intended to be used for learning and general robotics, also will set the starting point for next incoming IMU based ArduPilot's (at the end of this year) and lot more! The code is based on the very well known Arduino Environment and is Open Source (of course!).The hardware consists on 3 axis accelerometers/gyroscopes, dual power regulator (3.3v and 5v), GPS port, an Atmega328@16mhz and a lot of status LED's.The code uses Direction Cosine Matrix code (By Bill Premerlani) and some other stuff extracted from ArduPilot (developed by me). You can read more about DCM here.The mass production is not clear yet, but the sensors can be purchased now from SparkFun or from our store. For now i will assemble just a few boards (ready to use) and sell them the next week (controller board with sensors) for around 100 bucks, sorry... For around $99 dlls. =) But being honest i will have to increase tiny bit the price to keep the DIYdrones store alive! Moving the business was kinda expensive.About the boards color, i will kindly ask Nate to change the color to blue because I'm unable to match his red (mine is more like orange). All the incoming boards from us will be blue anyway. =)The code will be released next week with the hardware. Please be patient. Thank you!Here is a demo video:

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sid September 19, 2009 at 9:57pm

Hi Jordi,
JUst to confirm, this is only an IMU not an IMU shield for ardupilot and this will not replace thermopiles on current ardupilot at the moment ..correct me if I am wrong.

REgards
SID
Roberto Hawkowski September 19, 2009 at 9:08pm

Jordi,
Can you release the Arduino code for DCM (airplane state estimate code) before you release the board?
I am using ArduMega and would love to learn from your DCM code. (PLEASE:))
Thx,
Roberto
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Jordi Muñoz September 19, 2009 at 7:31pm

The same moment i release the boards. ;-)
Dan Wilson September 19, 2009 at 5:08pm

Hi Jordi,

When will the ArduIMU source code be released?

Cheers
Developer

Jordi Muñoz September 19, 2009 at 4:24pm

Mitch, Ok don't worry i will try to do that... =)
Mitch September 19, 2009 at 3:45pm

When you put the first batch of boards online, can you pleeeease put some more uBlox stock online first.

I will need to purchase both and would like to do it in a single order.

Thanks
Developer

Jordi Muñoz September 19, 2009 at 9:52am

No yet, i don't have right angle pins =) I just order them but i think they didn't make it for today (delivered).
Developer

Doug Weibel September 18, 2009 at 6:19am

Did the board make it in to the store? Did I miss the first batch?
3D Robotics

Chris Anderson September 17, 2009 at 4:41am

To be fair, although he is an expert hand-solderer, we do have a reflow oven, too. So these boards should look as good as any "pro" board, since they use the same solder paste and oven process. Just no pick-and-place robot!
isobot September 16, 2009 at 11:41pm

I like how Jordi says " the board is not assembled "professionally" I have seen his soldering work in person and it is incredible! better than any hand assembly I have ever seen. once again he is being way to modest...
Keep up the good work and looking forward to the IMU boards release.

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